I'm Carmen Colado, a 21-year old soldier by profession and poet by disorder. I live in Georgia at the moment but I'm a born and raised Texan, displaced from my beautiful state only by necessity.
A.E. Housman and his "Laws of God, Laws of Man" poem allowed me to move past my bias against poetry. I had once thought it was all "Roses are red, violets are blue" but Housman quickly showed me there can be true meaning behind the beautifully crafted lines of poems.
Now every day I use poetry as an escape and a release, as a way to describe the indescribable and make sense of the nonsense.